Aldo Mondino. Opere dal 1960 al 2000
from 2 March 2024 to 30 March 2024
Genova
Alber, (s.d.).
tecnica mista su tela
80 × 80 cm
SATURA, with its “La Galleria” project, is dedicating an exhibition to one of the most eclectic figures in 20th-century art, Aldo Mondino. The exhibition, curated by Mario Napoli, opens on Saturday 2 March at 5.00 pm in the prestigious rooms of Palazzo Stella.
Born in Turin, Aldo Mondino (Turin, 1938 – 2005) moved to Paris in the late 1950s, where he frequented the studio of the engraver William Heyter, the École du Louvre and a mosaic course at the Academy of Fine Arts with the artists Gino Severini and Riccardo Licata. His return to Italy in the early 1960s marked the start of his prolific exhibition career, with shows at the Galleria L’Immagine in Turin (1961) and the Galleria Alfa in Venice (1962). In the years that followed, for around seven years (from 1973 to 1980), Mondino returned to Paris to consolidate his artistic career whilst awaiting a re-evaluation of his painting: the painter’s dedication was rewarded with participation in the Venice Biennale in 1976 and 1993 – the latter curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, for which Mondino presented the large canvases from the Dervishes series, Jugen stilo and works created using sugar cubes and carpets.
From the very outset, his artistic practice proved to be as multidisciplinary as it was multi-material: Mondino was interested in graphic design, painting, sculpture and mosaics, creating works on canvas, cardboard, Heraklite and linoleum and using the most diverse of materials such as oil, pencil, adhesive tape, charcoal and chocolates – specially produced for the creation of certain works. Unlike many of the figures Mondino himself associates with, the Turin-born artist’s work cannot be pigeonholed into a single style: his output has drawn on the customs and traditions of the Eastern world – the Dervishes series, the Carpets series – on Surrealist art, but also on Pop Art, without ever identifying with a specific group or movement.
Born in Turin, Aldo Mondino (Turin, 1938 – 2005) moved to Paris in the late 1950s, where he frequented the studio of the engraver William Heyter, the École du Louvre and a mosaic course at the Academy of Fine Arts with the artists Gino Severini and Riccardo Licata. His return to Italy in the early 1960s marked the start of his prolific exhibition career, with shows at the Galleria L’Immagine in Turin (1961) and the Galleria Alfa in Venice (1962). In the years that followed, for around seven years (from 1973 to 1980), Mondino returned to Paris to consolidate his artistic career whilst awaiting a re-evaluation of his painting: the painter’s dedication was rewarded with participation in the Venice Biennale in 1976 and 1993 – the latter curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, for which Mondino presented the large canvases from the Dervishes series, Jugen stilo and works created using sugar cubes and carpets.
From the very outset, his artistic practice proved to be as multidisciplinary as it was multi-material: Mondino was interested in graphic design, painting, sculpture and mosaics, creating works on canvas, cardboard, Heraklite and linoleum and using the most diverse of materials such as oil, pencil, adhesive tape, charcoal and chocolates – specially produced for the creation of certain works. Unlike many of the figures Mondino himself associates with, the Turin-born artist’s work cannot be pigeonholed into a single style: his output has drawn on the customs and traditions of the Eastern world – the Dervishes series, the Carpets series – on Surrealist art, but also on Pop Art, without ever identifying with a specific group or movement.
His exhibition career continued with various shows at national and international galleries, from Rome to Paris, Chicago, Geneva, London, Istanbul, Bologna and his hometown, Turin. In the early 2000s, Mondino exhibited his Murano glass sculptures for the first time at the Galleria Carlina in Turin; in 2003, the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to the artist, “Aldologica”, took place at the Loggetta Lombardesca in Ravenna, where works from the past forty years were displayed together for the first time.
Among the most recent exhibitions dedicated to the artist are “Mondino a colori. La pittura dagli esordi al linoleum” (CAMeC Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art, La Spezia, 2019) and “Aldo Mondino. Regole per l’inganno” (BUILDING, Milan, 2023).
Alber, (s.d.).
tecnica mista su tela
80 × 80 cm
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